Bits & Pieces (5/16/12)

4 Reasons People Backslide – Based on John Bunyan’s Pilgrim Progress, Tim Challies looks at four reasons that “people have been awakened to their need for salvation by some combination of the fear of God and the danger of hell, but eventually fall back or fall away”

The Maternal Instinct Magnifies God – Gloria Furman writes “[a]ll of our instinct to suffer, to love, to exercise patience, to endure pain, and to work for the good of our children is a reflection of the image of God.”